Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-06-02
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SHERMAN DRAGS THE DEMOC.
RACY OVER THE GOALS.
terrible Murders by an Aged Penn
sylvanian-Shocking Outrage
on a Young Girl-Etc.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE REcoRD-uN1oN.l
sRERMAN,s BOOM.
The Reception to the Ohio Senator at
Springfield, Ill.

Springfield, III.
SPRINGFIELD, June 1st.-The bad weather
of to-day seriously interfered with the
Sherman reception at the State Capitol, so
far as the outdoor demonstrations are con-
cerned. About - o'clock rain set in,
which continued at intervals, making it
necessary to abandon the outdoor demon
stration. Elaborate preparations had been
made IN the way of platform and seats in
the front of the State House. During
lull of the storm about one thousand per-
sons occupied their seats, but were driven
to the Representatives hall by the rain at
3 o'clock. At this point the committee
determined to remove the demonstration
to the shelter of the State House, and the
crowd surged and pressed for entrance to
the Assembly Chamber. In short time
two thousand persons had crowded into
the galleries, capable ordinarily of holding
eight hundred, and the more favored to
the number of fifteen hundred, were ad-
mitted to the floor of the House.
AS Senator Sherman, accompanied Gov
ernor Oglesby, Senators Cullom and Fare
well, State officers and a number of the
managing committee, entered the hall
there was loud and continuous applause.
Senator Sherman was introduced by Gov
ernor Oglesby. Sherman, after paying a
glorious tribute to the Illinois statesmen,
Douglas and Logan, gave sketch of the
history of the two great political parties,
since the repeal of the Missouri Compro
mise, showing the position of Republicans
and Democrats, and the questions of the
war, emancipation, reconstruction and
suffrage.
REFERRING TO THE DEMOCRACY
In the Southern States, Sherman said
there was not an intelligent man in the
land who does not know that Cleveland is
President by virtue of crime against the
electoral franchise, including murder,
arson, ballot-box stuffing, forgery and
perjury, but for which Blaine would now
be in his place. Continuing on the sub
ject, he said: 'The poison of the
success of these methods has already
affected the elections in some of
the great cities of the North, especially
in Chicago and Cincinnati, where. under
the lead of Mackin and Tosney, the crimi-
nal classes resorted to some of the meanest
of crimes to contro. the elections. Why
should they not? If crime should be re-
sorted to by the white Democrats of the
South to cheat and intimidate the poor
negroes of the South. why should not
white Democrats of the North be permitted
to resort to forgery and perjury 10 success
fully change the result of elections in the
North? Why discriminate against Mackin
and Tosney, by sending them to the peni-
tentiary, while sending Democrats of the
South, by means of like ofienses to the
Senate and House, and TO represent this
great republic in foreign courts. The mis-
| sion of the Republican party will never
| end until every loyal voter can cast one
honest vote, and no more, and have that
vote counted"
| Speaking on the tariff, Sherman said the
revenues must be reduced but be was OPP
| posed to the reductions of duties on articles
| that we ourselves produce, thus bringing
our skilled artisans in competition with
| foreign labor that will inevitably reduce
| the price of domestic labor.